Today’s issue of Blue Avocado includes an article I wrote on working with young people as volunteers. It offers tips on dealing with risks and potential liabilities, and details my own deep, dark past as a child volunteer. (Well, not so deep and dark. But certainly long ago . . . .)

Among Ilona’s most memorable experiences were passing out HIV+ literature in Guatemala, researching U.N programs as a legal intern for Amnesty International in London, and representing (pro bono) disabled, low-income people seeking Social Security benefits in Washington, DC.